Project

POPP-KAD: development of a digital land register for mid-nineteenth-century Belgium

Acronym
POPP-KAD
Code
19109012
Duration
01 November 2012 → 31 July 2018
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • History
    • Study of regions
  • Social sciences
    • Economic history
    • Economic geography
    • Human geography
    • Recreation, leisure and tourism geography
    • Urban and regional geography
    • Other social and economic geography
  • Engineering and technology
    • Urban and regional design, development and planning
Keywords
landownership land registry immoveable property history Comparative Geographic and map based Quantitative Surveys 19th Century Belgium
 
Project description

POPP-KAD is a digital land register for the middle of the 19th century. It contains the names of all

owners and a detailed description of properties, both built-on and vacant, across large parts of Belgium. These data are based on the cadastral matrices of municipalities that were published by P.C. Popp (1840-1880).